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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

10,000 Birds

Alas, one would be wrong – I immediately mixed it up with the rather similar-looking Rufous-bellied Niltava (not shown here). Another member of the magpie family, the White-winged Magpie , makes do with far fewer colors. One would think that a bird looking as distinct as the Fujian Niltava would be unmistakable.

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Laughing at you, not with you

10,000 Birds

Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. I can sometimes hear Hwamei singing here in my compound in Shanghai – alas, these are then cage birds, as the species is popular as a caged bird for its singing. This post shows some of them.

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